Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Author: Leonardo da Vinci

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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.